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• Awardees of 2018-2019 Potanin Scholarship Reveal Their Winning Hacks

  …m the heads of my Master’s program: they’d cooperated with the Vladimir Potanin Foundation as part of the competition, with some students of the last intake even succeeding in winning the scholarship. It was they who advised me and my groupmates to try it out for ourselves. I had no luck in winning the onsite round from the first go, bu…

  07.03.2019

• ITMO University Scientists Remember Nobel Laureate Zhores Alferov

  …. Petersburg Academic University (Nanotechnology Research and Education Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and the Physics and Technical School, which he founded after winning the Nobel Prize. Alexander Chirtsov, Professor at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering Zhores Alferov’s name goes hand in hand with progress in the field of semiconductor…

  05.03.2019

• Head of RN-Burenie Oil Company’s IT Department: Every Bit of Fundamental Knowledge I Have, I Learned at University

  …f. Vladimir Parfenov. A renowned figure, he was the reason that many of my peers had chosen that particular faculty. Everyone knew that students who studied under him ended up winning many competitions. Of course, I did my research first and considered other universities, including St. Petersburg State University, the Polytechnic University and others. But, as I’v…

  04.03.2019

• Evolutionary Biologist David Seaborg: Science Enriches Our Lives with Fantastic Ideas and Discoveries

  …n this event and what will you be speaking about? My talk will have two parts. I will speak, first of all, about the legacy of my father, Glenn Seaborg, his Nobel Prize-winning work, and his research on the Periodic Table (PT) in particular. Originally, scientists thought that new, heavy elements would be similar to elements on the main body of the PT, and so …

  04.03.2019

• Movie Fridays: Fine Tuning

  …, Cztery Oczy Elegizing a tense, sultry, politicized love affair set in the perilous zeitgeist of the postwar Europe, Cold War is a yet another tour de force from the Oscar-winning director Paweł Pawlikowski. The story is great, the execution is even greater, and the score is simply sublime, shrouded in mystifying jazz noir that is just perfect for the chic, forlo…

  01.03.2019

• METANANO-2019: World’s Top Scientists to Celebrate 10th Anniversary of Center of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials in St. Petersburg

  …al grant competition by submitting a CV and motivational letter before the April 15, 2019 deadline. The METANANO program committee will consider all applications and cover the winners’ travel expenses and registration fee. Applications will be reviewed over the course of three weeks, with the winners being announced on May 6, 2019. P…

  01.03.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 2-3

  … Great news for music aficionados out there! This Saturday, March 2, the legendary Derzhavin estate museum-mansion hosts the ‘Spring Chords’ piano concert by Tatiana Zhak and winners of international music competitions. The hall will be filled with the sounds of the piano, flute, violin, alto, cello, and bass. The concert kicks off at 4pm. Tickets cost 600 rubles an…

  27.02.2019

• ITMO Technopark Resident Wins International Contest On Blockchain Applications For Self-Driving Cars

  …ance their work. DCZD.tech received its Devies in the category IoT Development for their blockchain-based communication solution used in conjunction with mobile sensors. Other winners include the likes of Google and IBM. “IT technologies and tools are seeing a massive growth in their importance for business. DCZD.tech is a great example of a company keeping pace…

  26.02.2019

• Helping Sleepwalkers, Fighting Excessive Snow and Ensuring Better Security on Campus: Best Projects by 2019 “It’s Your Call!” Participants

  …tivity, after which the recordings would be sent to a smartphone where a special app would respond by generating a signal leading the patient out of a deep sleep cycle. The winning team’s participants were granted the right to enroll in Master’s and PhD programs at ITMO University without additional entrance tests. Second place: biometric identification system …

  25.02.2019

• Snack Like a Russian

  …he experience of having a beer with your buddies. Or you can cop out and buy dried fish in strips. A lot less work, and fun, but much more efficient on a train. The overall winner, however, was sunflower seeds. You used to be able to buy them on the street from some old lady ready to pour a glass-full straight into your pocket. Now they too come in a dozen flavors…

  25.02.2019